"Lawrence Wildman, meanwhile, was modeled on the prominent British financier and corporate raider Sir James Goldsmith. Originally, the studio wanted Warren Beatty to play Gekko, but he was not interested; Stone, meanwhile, wanted Richard Gere, but Gere passed on the role. The film was well received among major film critics. Douglas won the Academy Award for Best Actor, and the film has come to be seen as the archetypal portrayal of 1980s success, with Douglas' character declaring that ""greed is good."" It has also proven influential in inspiring people to work on Wall Street, with Sheen, Douglas, and Stone commenting"
"his portrayal of amoral corporate raider Gordon Gekko in the Oliver Stone-directed drama ""Wall Street"", for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor. He reprised the role in the sequel """" (2010). Douglas's subsequent film roles included: ""Black Rain"" (1989); ""The War of the Roses"" (1989); ""Basic Instinct"" (1992); ""Falling Down"" (1993); ""The American President"" (1995); ""The Game"" (1997); ""Traffic"" and ""Wonder Boys"" (both 2000); ""Solitary Man"" (2009); ""Ant-Man"" (2015) and ""Ant-Man and the Wasp"" (2018). In 2013, Douglas's performance as Liberace in the HBO biopic ""Behind the Candelabra"", received universal critical acclaim, and the actor won numerous"
"its American distributor, and cut for U.S. release, it became a huge hit abroad in its unedited version. Lyne's fourth film was the blockbuster ""Fatal Attraction"", which generated over $320 million worldwide, making it the highest-grossing film of 1987. The story of a happily married lawyer (Michael Douglas) who tries to break off an affair with an attractive single woman (Glenn Close), only to have her become obsessed with him and endanger his family, the film struck a chord with audiences. Deemed ""the zeitgeist hit of the decade"" by ""TIME Magazine"", ""Fatal Attraction"" earned six Academy Award nominations including Best"
"of San Francisco"" in 1976, Douglas went on to produce films including ""The China Syndrome"" (1979) and ""Romancing the Stone"" (1984). He won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy for ""Romancing the Stone"", in which he also starred, thus reintroducing himself to audiences as a capable leading man. After reprising his ""Romancing the Stone"" role as Jack Colton in the 1985 sequel ""The Jewel of the Nile"", which he also produced, and along with appearing in the musical ""A Chorus Line"" (1985) and the psychological thriller ""Fatal Attraction"" (1987), Douglas received widespread acclaim for"
"Cuckoo's Nest"", a story he purchased, and which he later gave to his son Michael Douglas, who turned it into an Oscar-winning film. As an actor and philanthropist, Douglas has received three Academy Award nominations, an Oscar for Lifetime Achievement, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. As an author, he has written ten novels and memoirs. Currently, he is No. 17 on the American Film Institute's list of the greatest male screen legends of classic Hollywood cinema, and the highest-ranked living person on the list. After barely surviving a helicopter crash in 1991 and then suffering a stroke in 1996,"
"Smart""<br> 2. Sean Connery – ""The Untouchables""<br> 3. Albert Brooks – ""Broadcast News"" 1. Kathy Baker – ""Street Smart""<br> 2. Vanessa Redgrave – ""Prick Up Your Ears""<br> 3. Anjelica Huston – ""The Dead"" 1. John Boorman – ""Hope and Glory""<br> 2. Joel and Ethan Coen – ""Raising Arizona""<br> 3. Juzo Itami – ""Tampopo"" 1987 National Society of Film Critics Awards The 22nd National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 4 January 1988, honored the best filmmaking of 1987. 1. The Dead<br> 2. ""Hope and Glory""<br> 3. ""The Last Emperor"" 1. John Boorman – ""Hope and Glory""<br> 2. John Huston"
"1987 National Society of Film Critics Awards The 22nd National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 4 January 1988, honored the best filmmaking of 1987. 1. The Dead<br> 2. ""Hope and Glory""<br> 3. ""The Last Emperor"" 1. John Boorman – ""Hope and Glory""<br> 2. John Huston – ""The Dead""<br> 3. Juzo Itami – ""Tampopo"" 1. Steve Martin – ""Roxanne""<br> 2. Albert Brooks – ""Broadcast News""<br> 3. Terry O'Quinn – ""The Stepfather"" 1. Emily Lloyd – ""Wish You Were Here""<br> 2. Diane Keaton – ""Baby Boom""<br> 3. Holly Hunter – ""Broadcast News"" and ""Raising Arizona"" 1. Morgan Freeman – ""Street"
"Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture with his co-actors in ""Traffic"" (2000). He reprised the role of Gekko in """" (2010) and was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture for the same. Douglas' portrayal of Liberace in ""Behind the Candelabra"" (2013) earned him the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie. For his contributions to the film industry, Douglas won the 2004 Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award and the 2009 AFI Life Achievement Award. Michael Douglas on stage and"
"intelligent Hollywood films of the 1970s."" Douglas's acting career was propelled to fame when he produced and starred in the 1984 romantic adventure comedy ""Romancing the Stone"". It also reintroduced Douglas as a capable leading man and gave director Robert Zemeckis his first box-office success. The film also starred Danny DeVito, a friend of Douglas since they had shared an apartment in the 1960s. It was followed a year later by a sequel, ""The Jewel of the Nile"", which he also produced. The year 1987 saw Douglas star in the thriller ""Fatal Attraction"" with Glenn Close. That same year he"
"review for ""The Globe and Mail"", Jay Scott praised the performances of the two leads: ""But Douglas's portrayal of Gordon Gekko is an oily triumph and as the kid Gekko thinks he has found in Fox ('Poor, smart and hungry; no feelings'), Charlie Sheen evolves persuasively from gung-ho capitalist child to wily adolescent corporate raider to morally appalled adult"". Rita Kempley in the ""Washington Post"" wrote that the film ""is at its weakest when it preaches visually or verbally. Stone doesn't trust the time-honored story line, supplementing the obvious moral with plenty of soapboxery"". Michael Douglas won the Academy Award"
"57th Academy Awards The 57th Academy Awards were presented March 25, 1985, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. Jack Lemmon presided over the ceremonies. The big winner at the ceremony was Miloš Forman's ""Amadeus"", which had received 11 nominations and won 8 awards including Best Picture and Best Actor for F. Murray Abraham. As of the 90th Academy Awards, ""Amadeus"" is the most recent film to receive two lead actor nominations. The winner of Best Supporting Actor was also significant. Haing S. Ngor, a Cambodian surgeon who survived the horrors of the Khmer Rouge, won the award for his"
"Best Director Oscar for the film. Isabella Rossellini won an Independent Spirit Award for the Best Female Lead in 1987. David Lynch and Dennis Hopper won a Los Angeles Film Critics Association award in 1987 for ""Blue Velvet"" in categories Best Director (Lynch) and Best Supporting Actor (Hopper). In 1987, National Society of Film Critics awarded Best Film, Best Director (David Lynch), Best Cinematography (Frederick Elmes), and Best Supporting Actor (Dennis Hopper) awards. Although it initially gained a relatively small theatrical audience in North America and was met with controversy over its artistic merit, ""Blue Velvet"" soon became the center"
"""The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, Champion, Ace in the Hole, The Bad and the Beautiful, Act of Love, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, The Indian Fighter, Lust for Life, Paths of Glory, Spartacus, Lonely Are the Brave"", and ""Seven Days in May"" as the films he was most proud of throughout his acting career. AFI Life Achievement Award Kennedy Center Honors Academy Awards Golden Globes Emmy Awards Screen Actors Guild Awards BAFTA Awards BAFTA/LA Britannia Awards Berlin International Film Festival Cesar Awards Hollywood Film Festival National Board of Review New York Film Critics Circle Award In 1983, Douglas received"
"humour was repeated with his next endeavour. In another advertisement from the same Foster's series, Hogan's character is approached in a London Tube station by a Japanese tourist who asks, 'Do you know the way to Cockfosters?' (referring to an area in North London), to which Hogan replies (with a puzzled look on his face): ""Drink it warm, mate."" Hogan's breakout role was that of Mick ""Crocodile"" Dundee in the 1986 film ""Crocodile Dundee"". Hogan also co-wrote the movie, which was a massive critical and commercial success in many countries. He won the 1987 Golden Globe Award for Best Actor"
"Award for Best Supporting Actor for the comedy-drama ""Being There"" (1979). However, Douglas confirmed in one of his final interviews that he refused to attend the 52nd Academy Awards because he could not bear competing against child actor Justin Henry for ""Kramer vs. Kramer"". In addition to his Academy Awards, Douglas won a Tony Award for his Broadway lead role in the 1960 ""The Best Man"" by Gore Vidal, and an Emmy for his 1967 role in ""Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night"". Douglas' final screen appearance was in ""Ghost Story"" (1981). He did not finish the film"
"– Carl Davis 1982: ""E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial"" – John Williams † 1983: ""Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence"" – Ryuichi Sakamoto 1984: ""Once Upon a Time in America"" – Ennio Morricone 1985: ""Witness"" – Maurice Jarre ‡ 1986: ""The Mission"" – Ennio Morricone ‡ 1987: ""The Untouchables"" – Ennio Morricone ‡ 1988: ""Empire of the Sun"" – John Williams ‡ 1989: ""Dead Poets Society"" – Maurice Jarre 1990: ""Cinema Paradiso (Nuovo Cinema Paradiso)"" – Andrea and Ennio Morricone 1991: ""Cyrano de Bergerac"" – Jean-Claude Petit 1992: ""Strictly Ballroom"" – David Hirschfelder Best Score<br> 1993: ""Schindler's List"" – John Williams † Anthony Asquith"
"in the gangster film ""Scarface"" (1983). He gained visibility voicing a talking bunch of grapes in a series of television commercials for Fruit of the Loom underwear. Abraham won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as envious composer Antonio Salieri in ""Amadeus"" (1984), an award for which Tom Hulce, playing Mozart in that movie, had also been nominated. He won a Golden Globe Award, among other awards, and his role in the film, directed by Miloš Forman, is still his most iconic. (He later continued the classical-music theme by narrating the plot summaries of the operas of"
"Nicholson, who won the Academy Award for Best Actor. Douglas won the Award for Best Picture for producing the film. After leaving ""Streets of San Francisco"" in 1976, Douglas played a hospital doctor in the medical thriller ""Coma"" (1978), and in 1979 he played the role of a troubled marathon runner in ""Running"". In 1979, he both produced and starred in ""The China Syndrome"", a dramatic film co-starring Jane Fonda and Jack Lemmon about a nuclear power plant accident (the Three Mile Island accident took place 12 days after the film's release). The film was considered ""one of the most"
"game show ""Blind Date"". In the summer of 1959, Douglas hosted eleven original episodes of a CBS Western anthology television series called ""Frontier Justice"", a production of Dick Powell's Four Star Television. As Douglas grew older, he took on older-man and father roles, in such movies as ""Hud"" (1963), for which he won his first Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, ""The Americanization of Emily"" (1964), an episode of ""The Fugitive"" (1966), ""I Never Sang for My Father"" (1970), for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor, and ""The Candidate"" (1972). He won his second Academy"
"the Best Actor Oscar for ""Save the Tiger"" (1973), becoming the first actor to achieve this rare double (the only other actors to have done so are Robert De Niro, Gene Hackman, Jack Nicholson, Kevin Spacey, and Denzel Washington). He was also nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for his role in the controversial film ""Missing"" in 1982, and for his roles in ""Some Like It Hot"" (1959), ""The Apartment"" (1960), ""Days of Wine and Roses"" (1962), ""The China Syndrome"" (1979), for which he was also awarded Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival, and ""Tribute"" (1980). He won another"
"Michael Douglas Michael Kirk Douglas (born September 25, 1944) is an American actor and producer. Douglas's career includes a diverse range of films in the independent and blockbuster genres, for which he has received a number of accolades, both competitive and honorary. These awards include the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award for ""outstanding contributions to the world of entertainment"" and the AFI Life Achievement Award, which ""honor[s] an individual whose career in motion pictures or television has greatly contributed to the enrichment of American culture"". The elder son of Kirk Douglas and Diana Dill, Douglas received his Bachelor of"
"ability to play older mentors to younger leads, which would become a recurring role in many of his later films. The following year, his acclaimed performance as a hard-nosed Irish-American cop in ""The Untouchables"" (1987) earned him the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, his sole nomination throughout his career. Fellow nominees included Morgan Freeman and Denzel Washington, both of whom would go on to win the award. His subsequent box-office hits included ""Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade"" (1989), in which he played Henry Jones, Sr., the title character's father, ""The Hunt for Red October"" (1990) (where he was"
"accolades for his role, including Golden Globe, Emmy and Screen Actors Guild Awards. Apart from his career in the film industry, Douglas has received notice for his humanitarian and political activism, as well as media attention for his marriage to Welsh actress Catherine Zeta-Jones. Douglas was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, the first child of actors Kirk Douglas (born 1916) and Diana Dill (1923–2015). His parents met at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. His father is Jewish, and was born Issur Danielovitch. Michael's paternal grandparents were emigrants from Chavusy (now in Belarus, then part of the Russian Empire)."
"""A Greek Tragedy"", ""The Mission"", ""Precious Images"", ""Round Midnight"", ""Top Gun"", and ""Women – for America, for the World"" with one. The nominees for the 59th Academy Awards were announced on February 11, 1987, at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California, by Robert Wise, president of the Academy, actor Don Ameche, and actress Anjelica Huston. ""Platoon"" and ""A Room with a View"" led all nominees with eight each. The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on March 30, 1987. Marlee Matlin was the first deaf performer to win an Oscar and the youngest winner in the Best"
"59th Academy Awards, Dafoe was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, but the stautette was awarded to Michael Caine at the ceremony. Dafoe provided his voice to the documentary """" (1987) and, in 1988, Dafoe starred in another film set during the Vietnam War, this time as Criminal Investigation Command Agent Buck McGriff in the action thriller ""Off Limits"". His second release of 1988 was Martin Scorsese's epic drama ""The Last Temptation of Christ"", in which Dafoe portrayed Jesus. The film was adapted from the novel of the same name and depicts his struggle with various forms"
"F. Murray Abraham F. Murray Abraham (born Murray Abraham; October 24, 1939) is an American actor. He became widely known during the 1980s after winning an Oscar for his leading role as Antonio Salieri in the drama film ""Amadeus"" (1984). Abraham also won a Golden Globe and received a BAFTA Award nomination for the role. He has appeared in many roles, both leading and supporting, in films such as ""All the President's Men"" (1976), ""Scarface"" (1983), ""The Name of the Rose"" (1986), ""Last Action Hero"" (1993), """" (1998), ""Finding Forrester"" (2000), ""Inside Llewyn Davis"" (2013), and ""The Grand Budapest Hotel"""
"(1989), ""There Will Be Blood"" (2007), and ""Lincoln"" (2012), making him the only male actor in history to have three wins in the lead actor category, and one of only three male actors to win three Oscars. He was also nominated in this category for ""In the Name of the Father"" (1993), ""Gangs of New York"" (2002), and ""Phantom Thread"" (2017). He has also won four BAFTA Awards for Best Actor, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, and two Golden Globe Awards. In November 2012, ""Time"" named Day-Lewis the ""World's Greatest Actor"". Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis was born in Kensington, London,"
"also has an honorary doctorate from Rider University in Lawrenceville, New Jersey. F. Murray Abraham F. Murray Abraham (born Murray Abraham; October 24, 1939) is an American actor. He became widely known during the 1980s after winning an Oscar for his leading role as Antonio Salieri in the drama film ""Amadeus"" (1984). Abraham also won a Golden Globe and received a BAFTA Award nomination for the role. He has appeared in many roles, both leading and supporting, in films such as ""All the President's Men"" (1976), ""Scarface"" (1983), ""The Name of the Rose"" (1986), ""Last Action Hero"" (1993), """" (1998),"
"movie was a box office hit, and sparked controversy over its depictions of bisexuality and lesbianism. In 1994 Douglas and Demi Moore starred in the hit movie ""Disclosure"" focusing on the topic of sexual harassment with Douglas playing a man harassed by his new female boss. Other popular films he starred in during the decade were ""Falling Down"", ""The American President"", ""The Ghost and the Darkness"", ""The Game"" (directed by David Fincher), and a remake of Alfred Hitchcock's classic – ""Dial M for Murder"" – titled ""A Perfect Murder"". In 1998 Douglas received the Crystal Globe award for outstanding artistic"
"and Samuel L. Jackson. The film was well received. Using the basis of ""The Dirk Diggler Story"", Anderson wrote and directed an expansion of the film entitled ""Boogie Nights"" in 1997. The film starred Mark Wahlberg as Eddie Adams/""Dirk Diggler"" during the Golden Age of Porn in the 1970s and his eventual downfall in the 1980s. ""Boogie Nights"" received acclaim from critics and was a commercial success; at the 70th Academy Awards ceremony, the film was nominated for three Academy Awards, including for Best Supporting Actor (Burt Reynolds), Best Supporting Actress (Julianne Moore) and Best Original Screenplay. His 1999 ensemble"
"the greatest male screen legends in American film history, making him the highest-ranked living person on the list. In 1996, he received the Academy Honorary Award ""for 50 years as a creative and moral force in the motion picture community"". Kirk Douglas filmography The following is the filmography of American film and stage actor, film producer and author Kirk Douglas. His popular films include ""Out of the Past"" (1947), ""Champion"" (1949), ""Ace in the Hole"" (1951), ""The Bad and the Beautiful"" (1952), ""20,000 Leagues Under the Sea"" (1954), ""Lust for Life"" (1956), ""Paths of Glory"" (1957), ""Gunfight at the O.K."
"as a portrayal not only of the ""painter-as-hero,"" but a unique presentation of the ""action painter,"" with Douglas expressing the physicality and emotion of painting, as he uses the canvas to capture a moment in time. Douglas was nominated for an Academy Award for the role, with his costar Anthony Quinn winning the Best Supporting Actor Oscar as Paul Gauguin, van Gogh's friend. Douglas won a Golden Globe award, although Minnelli said Douglas should have won an Oscar: ""He achieved a moving and memorable portrait of the artist—a man of massive creative power, triggered by severe emotional stress, the fear"
"surveys placing it in their top 500 films list. Woody Allen considers it one of his favorite films. As the film's star and protagonist, Douglas is credited for the intensity of his acting. Roger Ebert described ""Douglas's focus and energy ... as almost scary. There is nothing dated about [his] performance. It's as right now as a sharpened knife."" Biographer Gene Philips notes that Wilder's story was ""galvanized"" by Douglas's ""astounding performance"", and no doubt was a factor when George Stevens, who presented Douglas with the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1991, said of him: ""No other leading actor was"